Placeholder while article actions loadJust after noon on Tuesday, a passenger flying in a single-engine plane about 20 miles east of Boca Raton, Fla., radioed air-traffic control. (Video: The Washington Post)From a tower in Fort Pierce, about 75 miles north of Boca Raton, the air traffic controller asked the passenger to reiterate his situation. The passenger repeated that the pilot was incoherent: “He is out.”For about the next five minutes, the air traffic controller instructed the passenger on how to keep the plane stable and begin making a descent. I don’t know how to do anything.”The tower eventually connected the passenger to air traffic controllers in Palm Beach County. They guided him to the Palm Beach International Airport, where the man successfully landed the plane.

Source: Washington Post May 11, 2022 18:38 UTC